Intelligent Design is a religious theory, and should be taught as part of Religious Studies. If people try to include it in Science, that is a lie, and religious people are not supposed to tell lies.

And no, intelligent design is not possible. The sheer weight of empirical evidence for evolution is simply too great. The probability of the whole concept being wrong is vanishingly small. Some ID people try to present it as 'guided evolution'. That is rather harder to refute, but if true, would not require natural selection as a mechanism. And the evidence is strongly in favour of natural selection.

I myself only believe in evolution, because of the pure proof of it. I on the other hand have no right nor do you to tell someone that there is no creator. That is there right to believe, we have no right to tell them there wrong just like they shouldn't be putting down evolution. My whole point is that it shouldn't be taught in schools.

yes they ruled against that. The fight on the other hand is still raging on. While i was looking at books on evolution in the library i opened the book and found a pamplet saying that i was sinning for looking at evolution from evidencebible.com. I couldn't believe that someone would go to the library find these books and paste something like this inside. If i want to read about evolution I shouldn't have creationism shoved in my face.

I think that evolution should be taught but I do not believe that evolution proves God doesn't exist.

People who are religious are simply afraid of someone proving them wrong, and that makes them angry. Just like if a scientist was proven wrong when he believes himself completely.

Religion is based on faith. Therefore, nothing should be able to sway religious people from their beliefs. I do not think that people are "stupid" because they are afraid of what they don't understand. Evolution should be explained in complete detail to everyone, so that everyone can see the validity in the theory and how it doesn't pertain to God's existence.

"There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea."— Percy Williams Bridgman, US physicist

The reality of evolution does not, in fact, prove there is no creator. There is no reason why some deity may not have created the universe, or even created life. However, the evidence strongly indicates that life, once it exists, changed by evolution through natural selection. The origin of the universe and abiogenesis are totally different issues, and evolution's reality is not relevent to that separate discussion.

skeptic wrote:The reality of evolution does not, in fact, prove there is no creator. There is no reason why some deity may not have created the universe, or even created life. However, the evidence strongly indicates that life, once it exists, changed by evolution through natural selection. The origin of the universe and abiogenesis are totally different issues, and evolution's reality is not relevent to that separate discussion.

agreed!!!

"There is no adequate defense, except stupidity, against the impact of a new idea."— Percy Williams Bridgman, US physicist

"The reality of evolution does not, in fact, prove there is no creator."yup!!!intelligent design talks of creation not evolution for evolution to occur, initially there has to be creation... ID is totally different from evolution.... this debate goes nowhere.... b'cuz none of us can provide proofs for what we believe... when we talk about nature we cannot perfectly define what nature is.. we may say rules... but how did the rules come into existence.... then again some 1 may say the rules or by God... how can he prove that???

Science is what we believe it to be... there are people who believe supernatural... Both are the same... the first kind don't care about why it[science] is the way it is..they use it for benefit. the second care about only the past[about source]. and leaves the rest.... these two sects will keep fighting for the rest of eternity...